AFRICOM Week in Review Ending 02 Nov 09

Hot Topics CD: Protest in DRC over insecurity 11/01/09 CF:  Children bearing brunt of Central African Republic’s troubles, says UNICEF offic 10/21/09 DZ: Algeria: Al-Qaeda failing to attract recruits govt claims 10/30/09 ET: Can Ethiopia’s Electoral Code Guarantee Fair Elections? 11/01/09 ET: Ethiopia: 3 soldiers defect to Eritrea 10/31/09 GM: Former military police commander calls …

Journal: Americans Have Been Taken Hostage–And How to Free Us All and Restore the Republic

Full Story Online Dylan Ratigan| Sep. 14, 2009, 1:33 PM The American people have been taken hostage to a broken system. It is a system that remains in place to this day. . . . . . . . It has become startlingly clear that we as a country, and I as a journalist, had …

Journal: Chuck Spinney Highlights Labor Day in a Kleptocracy

Where have All the broad Shoulders Gone? Or, Labor Day in a Kleptocracy posted by Juan Cole Sept 7, 2009 http.www.juancole.com/2009/09/where-have-all-broad-shoulders-gone-or.html The unemployment rate as I write is inching toward 10 percent nationally, and that is only counting people who were still looking for a job recently. A vast bank robbery by the corrupt on …